Peacemaking interreligious dialogue: principles, objectives, forms of implementation
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-1-215-234
Abstract
The article offers the original classification of interreligious dialogue types based on four criteria as follows. 1. «Intention» (i.e. the motivation to come into contact with a representative of another religion); 2. «Goal» (i.e. tasks and aims headed towards by the participants in the dialogue); 3. «Principles» (i.e. the starting points, which determine the interaction); 4. «Form» (i.e. participants in the dialogue). Among those the most important criterium is that if intention, which identifies the types of «polemical», «peacemaking », «cognitive» and «partnership» dialogue. These types of dialogue are lined up respectively around the following questions: «Who is right?», «How can we live together peacefully?», «Who are you?» and «What can we do to improve the world?». In the article are analyzed the possibilities of applying the approach outlined as above. As an example is used the interreligious dialogue, which aims to reconciliate the arguing parties. Special attention is additionally paid to the “diplomatic” dialogue as conducted between between heads and official representatives of religious communities.
Keywords
classification,
diplomacy,
religion,
dialogue of,
religion,
relations between,
peacemaking,
types of
UDC: 26.009
Supporting agencies: The research was supported by the Research grant of the project number 18-311-00337 (Interreligious dialogue and its forms; criteria for classification)
About the Author
S. V. Melnik
Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergey V. Melnik, Ph. D (Philos.), Researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (ISISS RAS), Assistant of Secretariate for Interreligious Relations of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Officer of the Secretariat of the Interreligious Council of Russia, Moscow
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Melnik S.V. Peacemaking interreligious dialogue: principles, objectives, forms of implementation. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2019;12(1):215-234. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-1-215-234
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